One of my old students who I encouraged to join Serge's club told me about Fedor punching precisely like this in his instructional book. I'm pretty sure he walked around with a boner for a week after reading it.

Nice thread & vid. I was left wondering after the other Fight Geek clip's padwork, so this is really great.

What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. -Xenophon's Socrates

Think of when you close the hood of your truck, you have to roll your shoulders up to get enough force to close it easily. Its like the posture you assume when you throw a discus, you need to get your lats involved or it ends up being just an arm punch.

Without the over-rotation, you won't get the back muscles to fire with the punch.

As far as advantages go, its not a silver bullet but it is another angle to attack from.

Fuuuck, Nog has a hard chin!!!

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
-Mentat Text Two (dicto)